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Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman told several thousand customers at HPE Discover 2017 that her company has the "right mix" of "breakthrough" hybrid IT-intelligent edge innovation and the services to go along with it to deliver better business outcomes for them.

HPE Executive Vice President Antonio Neri speaks with CRN about the enterprise services spin-off into DXC, the acquisitions of Nimble and SimpliVity, the potential for future deals, and how HPE stacks up against Cisco and Dell EMC.

HPE is enhancing its Synergy Composable Infrastructure and showing for the first time its "Project New Stack" platform which together target spanning converged infrastructure across on-premises and public clouds.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman spoke with CRN about new products at HPE Discover 2017, how HPE's strategy compares with Dell EMC and Cisco and just how committed she is to continuing to run HPE.

The new server platform includes hardware-based security that HPE claims is second-to-none, along with the latest in memory and storage technologies to help make Gen10 servers a better fit in software-defined deployments.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Global Partner Summit, which this year is paired for the first time with HPE Discover, includes a slew of partner program enhancements. Here are the top 10 partner-ready program game changers.

HPE's Terry Richardson, who was voted the top channel chief in the industry in CRN's 2017 Channel Madness competition, gives no nonsense advice on what partners need to do to succeed in the digital transformation era.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman spoke with CRN about the company's plan to take its transformation to the next level. She also commented on Aruba's market share gains, Cisco layoffs and why customers should make the move from Cisco UCS to Synergy.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman said now that HPE has completed one of the "largest transformations" in American business history, it is looking more closely at the "financial architecture" of the remaining $28 billion company.

Nutanix's losses are still piling up. But the company's hyper-converged infrastructure technology is finding its way on to more hardware platforms, including servers from HPE, Cisco, and IBM, and into more enterprise deployments.

AMD was once the only serious Intel competitor in the x86 server processor market with its Opteron line, before exiting the market about five years ago. Now AMD is back with a new architecture, promising leading performance and lower costs.

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The security industry saw more threats and funding opportunities in 2017, with massive data breaches and ransomware attacks crippling major institutions, and vendors tapping into the deep pockets of private equity and IPOs.